ATLANTA,None — Channel 2 Action News has uncovered allegations that some parents and students at one southwest Atlanta school knew all about cheating in one particular classroom and tried to take advantage of it.
Investigators stated in the CRCT cheating scandal report that Dunbar Elementary fifth-grade teacher Gloria Ivery supplied her classes with test answers in 2009 and other years, too. They concluded that the odds of wrong-to-right erasures in Ivey's 2009 classes were more than a trillion to one.
Report: Parents, Students Requested Cheating Teacher
The report went on to state that some parents knew about the cheating in Ivey's classroom and, as a result, wanted their children there.
"Parents requested that their children be placed in Ivey's class because she would give students the answers to the CRCT," investigators wrote after interviewing one teacher.
After interviewing another Dunbar Elementary teacher, they wrote, "students request to be tested by Gloria Ivey. The students say that if Ivey tested them, she would help them on the CRCT."
The report states Ivey denied all the allegations of cheating. When investigators asked her why her CRCT test scores dropped so dramatically in 2010 when teachers were under more scrutiny, the report states, "she blamed it on the students. Ivey said her students in 2010 were not as bright as her students in 2009."
The report lists other findings at Dunbar Elementary, including allegations that the testing coordinator threatened teachers if they told investigators about the cheating. The report states Lera Middlebrooks "threatened the teachers that if they told investigators what happened she would place a lien on their house or 'get them at their car.'
Channel 2's Richard Elliot went by Ivey's southwest Atlanta home to try to get a comment, but no one answered her door.
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